Madrid Street Art: The Complete Guide to Lavapiés and Beyond

Guide pointing out a colourful graffiti mural in the Lavapies neighbourhood of Madrid

When people talk about street art in Spain, they talk about Barcelona. This is understandable and almost entirely wrong. Madrid has been producing extraordinary urban art for decades – politically urgent, technically sophisticated, deeply rooted in the city’s specific social history. It’s just less photographed. Less Instagrammed. Less on the tourist itinerary. That’s the best […]

Art Education Barcelona: How to Plan a Visit That Actually Teaches Something

Students painting a collaborative graffiti mural on a school art trip in Barcelona

  Barcelona for Art Education: What the City Offers Barcelona is an unusually good destination for art education – not just because of its museums, which are excellent, but because the entire city functions as an outdoor gallery. The Modernista architecture of Gaudí, the street art in Poblenou and El Raval, the Roman archaeological layers […]

Barcelona Gothic Quarter: Art History Hidden in Plain Sight

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The Gothic Quarter Barcelona Is Not What It Appears to Be The Gothic Quarter Barcelona is the most visited neighbourhoods in the city – and one of the least understood. The facades you photograph, the bridges you walk under, the towers you see from the rooftops – a significant portion of what feels authentically medieval […]

The Barcelona Art & Wine Tour: What to Expect

Local artist showing his work to visitors on a Barcelona art tour

  What the Barcelona Art & Wine Tour Actually Is Our Barcelona Art & Wine Tour takes a small group through two hours of Barcelona’s art world: working galleries, artist studios, the streets and street art between them, all with a glass of local wine inside of a beautiful gallery space. It is, from €34 […]

Barcelona’s Hidden Modernista Architecture

Sagrada Familia facade with blooming jacaranda trees, Gaudi modernist architecture in Barcelona

The Sagrada Família is extraordinary. We’re not suggesting you skip it. But the fact that it absorbs the majority of Barcelona’s architectural tourism means that the rest of the Modernista legacy — equally extraordinary, far less crowded, in some cases technically more interesting — goes largely unseen. In this article we will uncover some of […]

Madrid Museum Triangle: Prado, Reina Sofía & Thyssen Guide

Neoclassical facade of the Prado Museum in Madrid

Why Madrid’s Museum Triangle Is Unmissable Within a kilometre of each other on the Paseo del Prado, three of the world’s great art museums stand in improbable proximity: the Prado, the Reina Sofía, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza. Between them they cover Western art from the 12th century to the present, with a depth and quality that […]

How to Plan a Corporate Offsite in Barcelona: Art Experiences

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Why Barcelona Works for Corporate Offsites Barcelona has everything a corporate offsite needs: excellent air connections across Europe, a hotel infrastructure that ranges from boutique to five-star, a food and drink culture that consistently surprises even well-travelled groups, and a city that rewards exploration in a way that makes evenings feel like an extension of […]